eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position…
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Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 2
This is the second part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian…
New Testament Greek Manuscripts In Your Pocket: The NT Greek MSS iOS App
The H. Milton Haggard Center for New Testament Textual Studies (CNTTS) is involved in several projects in the field of…
How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 1) For my first post here on African studies and the use of digital tools, I’ll talk about my…
Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations
In my last article, I wrote about my experiments to improve the accuracy of a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model…
ArchivingDH in GeneralDH in PracticeDigitizationHTRIranian StudiesIslamic LanguagesIslamic StudiesOnline ResourcesTextual Analysis
Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 1
This is the first part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian…
Transkribus in Practice: Improving CER
Since joining the ERC-funded project, The Dawn of Tibetan Buddhist Scholasticism (11th-13th C.)(TibSchol),1 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in…
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READ Workbench (Part 1): An Introduction to a Text and Image Annotation Ecosystem
The ‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’ (or ‘READ‘) is an ecosystem of open-source tools and platforms for the creation of…
Voxel Art in the Classroom
For my first post exploring digital methods in the classroom, I will introduce Voxel Art and how I have utilized…
Notes from the Field: Digital Humanities at #DOT2022
Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft is the oldest association of German Orientalists, with most members’ research in the fields of philology and…